Celebrating Labor Day with a Worker-Powered Clean Energy Economy

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  American union members are building America’s clean energy future. The Biden-Harris clean energy plan has sparked a new generation of over 330,000 good-paying jobs with investments that are pro-worker, pro-consumer, and pro-planet. In 2023, clean energy jobs grew at double the rate of the country’s overall jobs, and unionization in clean energy outpaces the overall energy industry, including 3.9 million high-quality jobs that represent $2 trillion in investment, and the generation of over 1,000 gigawatts of clean power – a staggeringly bright outlook for workers and the American clean energy economy.

Vice President Harris has been a champion for workers and unions, fighting for workers’ bargaining power, joining workers on the picket line, and leading the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing. Meanwhile, Trump attacks unions and will destroy workers’ rights to feed his billionaire donors’ bottom lines. 

“This Labor Day, we are celebrating the renewable energy revolution growing union jobs,” said Ricky Villafan, IBEW Local 640 Member. “The clean energy boom has created 330,000 jobs building America’s clean energy future. Pro-Labor, clean energy investments are creating opportunities for workers across the country with high-paying jobs and quality training already underway thanks to unions. America’s green future depends on blue-collar power.”

“Kamala Harris knows that a worker-centered, clean energy economy is the key to a resilient, prosperous future for American workers. She cast the tie-breaking vote to pass the clean energy plan that creates higher labor standards and has kick-started the clean energy boom,” said Lori Lodes, Executive Director at Climate Power. “Kamala Harris will champion workers’ rights in the clean energy economy while Trump would continue his attacks to undermine labor—breaking promises to auto workers and stopping manufacturing in its tracks, all to give tax cuts to his billionaire donors.”